Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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The Schmooze Harrison Ford To Chris Pratt: Get Lost, ‘Indiana Jones’ Dies When I Do.
Movie star Chris Pratt will play the role of Indiana Jones over Harrison Ford’s chiseled, tanned, sweaty dead body, Ford says. Sorry — where were were? Legendary actor, woodworker, and recalcitrant matinee idol Harrison Ford has spoken: You shall have no other Indiana Jones’s but him. Appearing on The Today Show, the 76-year-old was asked…
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The Schmooze Chris Kattan’s #MeToo: Comedian Says Lorne Michaels Pressured Him To Sleep With Female Boss
Saturday Night Live comedian Chris Kattan says that famed SNL show-runner Lorne Michaels pressured him to engage in sex for the sake of a business deal. In “Baby Don’t Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live,” Kattan writes that during production for “Night At The Roxbury,” the 1998 movie starring Kattan and Will…
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Life ‘Take My Mom…Please’ He’ll Pay $10K If You Find His Mom A Jewish Suitor
Marc Guss is a businessman. He lives on the Upper East Side, with his wife and their Shih Tzu Bichon, Belle. And he’s sick and tired of men on dating sites. “The clientele,” he says. “They’re just not there. I was floored to see the disrespect and apathy.” There are always more women than men,…
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Opinion Good News For The Jews This Week: Boozing, And Breaking The Glass Ceiling
Great news: the air is warm, it’s the season of low-commitment Jewish holidays, and Shabbat is here. Let’s recap the good Jewish news of the week — because there is good news every week, if only we know where to look for it. If you have a tip for a Jewish news story that brought…
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The Schmooze Watch Out, ‘Shtisel’! Netflix Is Making A Partially Yiddish Show About Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Okay, I’m going to need all the rabid fans of the Israeli TV drama ‘Shtisel’ to sit down. If you’re holding a mug of tea or an Etgar Keret collection, set it somewhere safe. If you think good news surrounding prestige TV about ultra-Orthodox Jews might inspire you to loot and riot your neighborhood, lock…
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The Schmooze He’s The US Ambassador To Israel, And He Dressed Up As A BDSM Dragon For His ‘GoT’ Party
BDS or BDSM? David Friedman holds one of the most significant positions in American diplomacy. As the US ambassador to Israel, the Orthodox Jewish bankruptcy lawyer, and former president of the Trump Organization, influences policy decisions in one of the most volatile parts of the world. Friedman has courted controversy — comparing supporters of the…
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The Schmooze Moby: I Dated Natalie Portman. Portman: I Was A Teenager, He Was A Creep.
What would the 2019th year of the Common Era be without another delightful He said, She said? The singer-songwriter Moby has claims in his new memoir that he had a fling with movie star Natalie Portman decades ago, when she was 20 and he was 33. He previously spoke of “dating” Portman in an interview…
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The Schmooze Amy Schumer Does Stand-Up Set Two Weeks After Giving Birth
Two weeks after giving birth to her first child, comedian Amy Schumer took the stage at New York’s famed Comedy Cellar to do a stand-up set. “I’m back!” Schumer, 37, captioned a picture of her set, on Instagram. If you hear a rushing sound, that’s your blood pressure vroom-ing into high gear as your brain…
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